David Joyce Quotes
We are glad to see solid operational performance even though a much larger-than-expected goodwill write down was taken for the AOL and cable divisions, about $45 billion in total.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.
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The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.
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We are glad to see solid operational performance even though a much larger-than-expected goodwill write down was taken for the AOL and cable divisions, about $45 billion in total.
